Dating site pairs ‘attractive’ dates with ‘generous’ travelers

A new dating website offers a seemingly simple solution for some of those who can’t afford steep airline tickets: “Who needs money? Beautiful people travel for free!”

A sultry voice accompanies a short intro video on Miss Travel.com, posing the questions, “Are you attractive but don’t have the money to travel? What if you could travel around the world, stay in five star resorts, dine at top-rated restaurants and do the fun things travelers do, all for free?”

The Las Vegas-based site went live on April 9 and had 16,000 members on Wednesday, founder Brandon Wade told chron.com. He said he has seen some foreign traffic in the last few days, but 80 percent of users are from U.S. He said 700 of the users are from Texas, 200 of those from Houston. The ratio is for every one generous user there are 2.6 attractive users, Wade said.

“It has been crazy,” Wade said on Wednesday. “Since last night, we got another four to five thousand users.”

Courtesy of MissTravel.com

Wade said there is no rating system for the men and women that sign up because “beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” Visitors to the site can either sign up to be a “generous member” or an “attractive member”. He said about 99 percent of the generous members are men and that 6 percent of the total registered users are part of the gay community.

The companions can also earn frequent flyer miles in addition to the free tickets.